Friday, August 26, 2011

8/25/11 Sye Ten Bruggencate joins Eric Hovind and Paul Taylor to expose the latest illusion devised by atheists to get Christians to doubt their faith. See their trick revealed and learn how to defend your faith the biblical way.

The apostle Paul said in 1 Timothy 1 vs. 15 that among sinners he was chief. Well, I am this site's chief sinner. My name is Sye Ten Bruggencate. I'm 47 years old, single, and live in Ontario, Canada. I was born in Toronto, grew up in a loving Christian home, and am the 5th eldest of 7 children. My parents immigrated from Holland, (My Dad was originally from a Dutch colony in Indonesia) and I can speak Dutch fluently. I am a member of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Canada. I have had no formal training in apologetics (defense of the faith), but have studied presuppositional apologetics from many resources, most notably, lectures by the late Greg Bahnsen.

Question evolution is a grass-roots movement to challenge the anti-Christian dogma of evolution.

"Question evolution!" is off to a great start. The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), which is one of the largest non-denominational, grassroots church lobbies in America and represents over 43,000 churches, is promoting the campaign. With so many churches involved, there is going to be a whole lot of questioning of evolution going on! Get involved yourself and get your church involved as well—let us work together to spread the truth.

The campaign involves people empowering people to stand firm together against the evolutionary indoctrination so rampant in our schools, universities and media. You can encourage your friends to 'Question evolution'—especially if you are a student who is being force-fed evolutionary dogma.

What good questions can you ask? Our exciting 'Question evolution' tract, 15 Questions for Evolutionists, provides 15 critically important questions that evolutionists cannot adequately answer. Share them with your friends, family and fellow students. These attractive tracts are very affordable, or print your own from our downloadable PDF document.

Students certainly should question Darwinism in their schools and encourage others to do it too—after all, don't teachers urge students to "question everything"? Students have a right to question the evolutionary pseudoscience peddled to them.

You can also get shirts, hats and caps, bags, mugs, stickers or badges printed with "Question evolution! / Creation.com" or "Evolution—The greatest hoax on Earth? / Get the facts at Creation.com".

Wearing Question evolution! clothing will clearly show your opposition to evolutionary dogma. Christian students can wear these shirts or caps at their high schools, colleges/universities, or when 'hanging out' with friends.

By simply sharing a tract or wearing a shirt, cap or badge, others will visit creation.com and find out the truth, empowering them to reject the lie that "everything made itself without God". Christ as our Creator and Redeemer sets people free!

... grass-roots revolt against the force-feeding of everyone with evolutionary 'there-is-no-need-for-God' thinking.

Get involved in this grass-roots revolt against the force-feeding of everyone with evolutionary 'there-is-no-need-for-God' thinking.

You can visit the USA Creation.com webstore to order 'Question evolution' t-shirts, if you live in north America, or visit the CafePress store (in USA, Canada, UK/Europe and Australia) to order shirts, caps, mugs, badges, bags or stickers. Or you can make your own shirts using free downloadable artwork.

For students who have to wear a uniform, you can put a sticker on your bag or books, or wear a badge. Others can use the special Question evolution! coffee mug or badge at their work place.

Get your church involved in this exciting campaign! Organize a bulk order to save money. The rejection of the Creator's authority via evolutionary indoctrination is a core issue in the erosion of traditional Christian values. Please get involved in this exciting campaign!

In fact, refuting evolution doesn’t require complicated equations or lab experiments—though those do the job, too. Just remember the two fundamental flaws we can use to show evolution to be, well, not even scientifically viable.

Where’d You Get Your Information, Bub?
Everything that makes up your body requires genetic information. You’ve got hands and feet because your genes code for it. The same is true for any creature—dogs, camels, you name it.

The genetic information in humans varies from the information in animals, plants, and so on. Seems obvious, so why point it out? Because for animal kind A to somehow “presto-change-o” into animal kind B, the information’s got to change. A fish doesn’t just morph into an amphibian without something changing in the genes. It would have to gain some new information.

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Here’s the clincher: when we use operational science—the kind involving observable, repeatable, testable results—we have never observed, repeated, or been able to test animal kind A turning into animal kind B—at all. Sure, there’s some genetic “do-si-do” going on through mutations and gene drift, but there’s no way fish are going to sprout hair and opposable thumbs. Just in case you think by “no way” we mean there’s still a chance, there’s not—none, zilch, nada, not going to happen. What if we add billions of years and cool artistic renderings? Still no.

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That first point is devastating enough. But here’s how evolution gets buried even more.

You’ve probably heard news accounts about how life could have started on earth “gazillions” of years ago in volcanoes, slush pools, crystals, rocks, you name it. Maybe you’ve heard something about “artificial” life or test-tube life or rotten-food-in-the-refrigerator life (okay, maybe not the last one).

Those are interesting speculations, but they overlook one important rule in biology: life doesn’t, cannot, and will never come from non-life. Life comes from life. Always. That’s the law—the Law of Biogenesis, to be exact.

All these failed experiments, like the Miller-Urey experiment, really show is just how much intelligence is required for life to begin in the first place. (That is, way smarter than us.)

And Yet We’re Here
So, if evolution can’t explain how humans came to be (or any other living thing, for that matter), what can? The Bible. Yep, God’s Word.

The Bible provides an eyewitness account of how the universe and all life came to be. There’s no speculation or strange interpretation needed. You can just read how God created everything in six days a few thousand years ago. Simple. Factual.

Pick it up, dust it off if you need, and read it. There’s even some good news in there for you.

Mr. Swanson's Topic will be "Creation, Evolution, and the Genesis of the Christian Home School Movement in America."

Kevin Swanson was himself home schooled at the beginning of the movement in the 1960's, graduating from his home school in 1981. His father joined the Institute for Creation Research in the early 1960's, and chose home schooling as a means of inculcating a biblical worldview in his children. Now, Kevin continues his father's legacy as a leader in the present-day home education movement in America.

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Mr. Swanson has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and worked in engineering and corporate management for ten years prior to joining Christian Home Educators of Colorado as the Executive Director in the late 1990's, where he served in that capacity until August 2009. He now serves as a director of CHEC and hosts a daily radio program called "Generations with Vision." You can listen to all his shows at GenerationsWithVision.com or KevinSwanson.com.

"The vision of the program is to present life from the perspective of a biblical worldview and within the framework of a relational model of living. Worldview and relationships. There are no professionals on this program. There are no psychiatrists, professional counsellors, bureaucrats, and seminary professors. But you will find fathers, mothers, grandparents, pastors, and friends. We are introducing modern life to a different social context. We also assume the existence of God and the foolishness of human thought without the benefit of transcendent truth.

The Christian philosopher of the 1960s, Francis Schaeffer, is a major impetus behind our work. His work of 50 years is summarized in this simple statement - modern man is lost and lonely. We are working to provide a solution for both problems. Transcendent truth in the context of relationship."

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

About Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith
As a true pioneer of the alternatives to evolutionary theory, Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith fearlessly confronted the seemingly all powerful theory of evolution in the unversities and churches all over the world. With over 10 scientific publications and numerous patents to his credit, Dr. Wilder-Smith was a much sought-after lecturer and professor. Universally popular with his audiences--students, scientists, laymen, and military alike-- he won many awards for his speaking activities.

Creationist, Chemist, & Lecturer

Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at University of Reading, England (1941)

"Now we know that the cell itself is far more complex than we had imagined. It includes thousands of functioning enzmes, each one of them a complex machine itself. Futhermore, each enzyme comes into being in responce to a gene, a strand of DNA. The information content of the gene in its complexity must be as great as that of the enzyme it controls.

"A medium protein might include about 300 amino acids. The DNA gene controlling this would have about 1000 nucleotides in its chain. Since there are four kinds of nucleotides in a DNA chain, one consisting of 1000 links could exist in 4x10 [to the 1000 power] different forms.

"Using a little algebra (Logarithms) we can see that 4 [to the 1000 power] is equivalent to 10 [to the 600 power]. Ten multiplied by itself 600 times gives the figure 10 followed by 600 zeros! This number is completely beyond our comprehension." *Frank Salisbury, "Doubts about the Modern Theory of Evolution, "American Biology Teacher, September 1971, pp. 336-338.

Hairs on an average head 2X 10 to the 6 power
Seconds in a year 3X 10 to the7 power
Retirement age (o to 65) in seconds 2X 10 to the 9 power
World population 5X 10 to the 9 power
Miles [1.6 km] in a light year 6X 10 to the 10 power
Sands grains on all shores 10 to the 22 power
Observed stars 10 to the 22 power
Water drops in all the oceans 10 to the 26 power
Candle power of the sun 3X 10 to the 27 power
Electrons in the universe 10 to the 80 power

Probability of a machine assembling another with 1500 parts. 1 out of 10 to the 450 power for sucess. "Suppose we wanted to build a machine capable of reaching into bins for all of its parts, and capable of assembling from those parts a second machine just like itself." *Marcel J.E. Goley, "Reflections of a Communications Engineer, "in Analytical Chenistry, June 1961.

"Based on probability factors..any viable DNA strand having over 84 nucleotides cannot be the result of hapharzed mutations. At that stage, the probablities are 1 in 4.8 X 10 to the 50 power. Such a number, if written out, would read:
480,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. "Mathematicians agree that any requisite number beyond 10X 10 to the 50 power has, statistically, a zero probability of occurance (and even that gives it the 'benefit of the doubt'). Any species known to us, including 'the smallest single-cell bacteria, 'have enormously large numbers of nucleotides than 100 or 1000. In fact, single cell bacteria display about 3,000,000 nucleotides, aligned in a very specific sequence. This means, that there is no mathematical probability whatever for any known species to have been the product of random occurance--random mutations (to use the evolutionist's favotite expression)." *I.L. Cohen, Darwin was Wrong (1984), p. 205.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Bill was educated at SMU where he earned a Master of Science degree in Engineering, followed by post-graduate work at UCLA at the Engineering Executive Program. He retired from the Hughes Aircraft Company after a 31-year career in space technology, and attended the ICR Graduate School in El Cajon, California, with 13 hours of graduate courses in geology, astronomy, paleontology, and advanced concepts in creationism. He is a member of the Creation Research Society, and he conducts workshops for Christian schools and home schoolers, at Christian camps, and at various speaking engagements around the Rocky Mountain area.

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Bill also served as Co-Chairman for the Case for Creation Conference presented by the Institute for Creation Research at Calvary Temple and Colorado Community Church (held in Denver in October 2000). Bill also chaired the committee that hosted the ICR RATE Conference in September, 2007 which inaugurated the first observance of Creation Weekend at the time of the Jewish New Year. He has served as Guest Seminar Speaker for the Alpha Omega Institute in Grand Junction, Colorado, and has participated with them in Vacation Bible Schools in Colorado and Kansas.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Dr. David Menton of exposes the distortions and inaccuracies in the play and movie Inherit the Wind. This influential propaganda piece has deceived a whole generation with the false belief that Christians went on a "witch hunt" to stop John Scopes from teaching evolution, but in reality it was a "set up" by the American Civil Liberties Union.

About Dr. Menton
Dr. Menton was awarded "Professor of the Year" in 1998 while associate professor of anatomy at the respected Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Now a professor emeritus (he holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from Brown University), Dr. Menton now speaks full-time for Answers in Genesis. Audiences enjoy Dr. Menton's well-illustrated presentations on a variety of fascinating topics, such as the human body, feathers and birds, and the Scopes trial.

About Origins:
Watch as scientists, researchers and authors share relevant facts and thought-provoking evidence supporting creation. Join us for Cornerstone TeleVision's unique program entitled, ORIGINS, and then decide for yourself the truth about your human origins.

Donn Chapman reminds us,"It's God's view that He created you... and that should be your worldview too!"

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship was privileged to have as our June 2010 speaker Dr. Jerry Bergman. Dr. Bergman is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, Wayne State University, The University of Toledo, and Bowling Green State University. Dr. Bergman has also completed 40 graduate hours in the department of chemistry at Miami University in Oxford Ohio, and has studied geology, philosophy, nutrition, and chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. So far he has earned 9 degrees!

The title of his presentation is "Slaughter of the Dissidents," which is the title of one of his recnt books. In the book, Dr. Bergman exposes viewpoint discrimination, which is directed at those in academia who are Darwin Doubters or Darwin Skeptics. Several case studies are offered which document the stories of victims, who are routinely denied the treatment and benefits afforded to their colleagues; educators are denied tenure, students are denied degrees, and scientists are denied the opportunity to conduct scientific experiments or publish their findings in many mainline peer reviewed science journals. Many other tactics are also employed to ensure that the credibility, careers, and influence of these people is thoroughly destroyed.

Dr. Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at the college level for over 35 years. He has over 800 publications in 12 languages, mostly in science, 22 books and monographs, and over 100 scientific papers presented at professional and community meetings in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Among his books is a Fastback on the creation-evolution controversy published by Phi Delta Kappa, a college textbook on measurement and evaluation, and he has contributed to dozens of other textbooks.